You'd think Sun would see a lift in sales if all the SCO FUD is successful; they have their own Un*x after all, so if you want Darl off your back, buy Solaris. But I've always had the impression that you either love or hate Sun, and people don't buy theit kit based on hard business criteria.
WinXP cheats a bit. Yes, the desktop appears quicker, but try launching an application immediately and you'll find things are still churning away in the background. Having said that, there were real improvements compared to Win2K and *any* increase in boot speed is a Good Thing.
Seeing as it looks like C-3PO in the "Phantom Menace", before he got his gold lame suit.
As for its potential street cred, I don't think the combination of bare computer hardware, Linux and a Tolkien-derived name will see you having to beat off the hotties with a shitty stick;-)
I wish Americans would stop holding the BBC up as an example of great broadcasting! It's not what it used to be, and despite the occasional gem, there are as many crappy soaps and game shows as on the commercial channels. That's why Sky TV is still piling on subscribers despite high subscription charges...and Sky's success is built on American imports like The Simpsons, X-Files and Buffy!
And we're really fUX0red when natural gas runs out (probably within 20 years in the UK). Virtually all new power generation for the last 15 years has been gas, because the accountants like the short payback period and it helps meet the Kyoto targets because it produces less CO2 per kWh. Of course, if you want to introduce a bit of politics, Thatcher's obsession with crushing the British coal miners also had a lot to do with it.
I predict a big increase in sales of small generators. Quite a lot of people already have them in the countryside here in the UK (where powercuts are fairly frequent due to falling trees etc, and it takes longer to fix them because of their remoteness). An unfortunate side effect can be a choking diesel fog during a long powercut!
Still, what's the good of a home generator, Mr Anderson, if you're unable to find an ISP that works?
I was wondering, as the article says "Normally Linux takes a leisurely 5 seconds or more to complete the boot process" and my PC takes a postively indolent 90 seconds!
OK, there may not be a player for Linux (which I assume is what the fuss is all about) but, for Windows users, surely it's nowhere near as evil as RealPlayer? At least Apple don't make you navigate pages of misleading adverts directing you to a paid-for version, nor does your video open in a window with more toolbars than Photoshop (you can turn them off, but all you wanted to do was watch a video, not configure a piece of software).
QuickTime has that annoying "Why Go Pro?" dialog and can hijack some of your file associations if you don't read the setup questions, but that's about all.
Can someone please do "Cuthbert Goes Walkabout"? I played it on a Dragon 32, but most Dragon games were originally written for the TRS-80.
Odd TRS story: the bicycle manufacturer GT made a mountain bike called an RTS-1 (Rear Tuned Suspension). It shouls have been the more logical TRS-1 (Tuned Rear Suspension), but the Tandy trademark apparently stopped them using the initials TRS. This was about 10 years after the TRS had gone out of production!
I liked the music! However, the only feature on the site (at the time - haven't been back) was a very sophisticated chatroom where you could wander round the "Sugababes' house" and have conversations in different rooms. When the first messages on the screen were "Wanna smoke a bowl?" and "I'm looking to meet a nice young girl" I got the feeling it wasn't being used by the intended audience.
I once went to the Sugababes' website (don't ask why) and the chatroom - clearly aimed at their pre-pubescent fanbase - appeared to be full of pervs trying to pick up kids - or kids pretending to be pervs trying to pick up kids, I'm not sure which. More dangerous than pr*n sites - pr*n sites may corrupt your kids, but they don't lure them into secret meetings or ask for photos.
I do use one IRC channel, but it's a special one on QuakeNet for a few mates who used to play Quake 2 together - never any trouble in there.
We had one girl in the office who used them a lot. Mind you, she also disinfected her entire desk every morning using Dettox spray. Since she left, a bearded vegetarian has taken over that desk, and takes his shoes off before starting work. As they say in Yorkshire, "there's nowt so queer as folk".
"I never fuss about dirt in its pure state, and when I know what sort it is... I wouldn't think of giving such trouble to neighbours in washing up when there's so much work to be done in the world already."
"A right sensible man." said Jacob. "True, true; it can't be gainsaid!" observed a brisk young man -- Mark Clark by name..."And here's a mouthful of bread and bacon that mis'ess have sent, shepherd. The cider will go down better with a bit of victuals. Don't ye chaw quite close, shepherd, for I let the bacon fall in the road outside as I was bringing it along, and may be 'tis rather gritty. There, 'tis clane dirt; and we all know what that is, as you say, and you bain't a particular man we see, shepherd." "True, true -- not at all." said the friendly Oak. "Don't let your teeth quite meet, and you won't feel the sandiness at all. Ah! 'tis wonderful what can be done by contrivance!"
That happened to Lister in Red Dwarf...he ended up having all the money in the world due to compound interest over 3 million years, but IIRC he owed all of it to this electricity supplier because he left a light switched on.
There are biomass power stations in Europe that use willow as a fuel. Willow trees grow very quickly and, as has been done for centuries, can be "pollarded" to remove the last year's growth for fuel without killing the tree. These plants are CO2 neutral. over the timespan of a year. Biodiesel, which works in the majority of new diesel cars, is also CO2 neutral because it comes from quick-growing crops such as soya beans.
All this makes more sense than GWB's hydrogen economy, which needs electricity to make the hydrogen. As electricity generation is about 30% efficient, there's not much point in using biomass to produce hydrogen for fuel cells - you might as well stick biodiesel straight in the car.
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You'd think Sun would see a lift in sales if all the SCO FUD is successful; they have their own Un*x after all, so if you want Darl off your back, buy Solaris. But I've always had the impression that you either love or hate Sun, and people don't buy theit kit based on hard business criteria.
WinXP cheats a bit. Yes, the desktop appears quicker, but try launching an application immediately and you'll find things are still churning away in the background. Having said that, there were real improvements compared to Win2K and *any* increase in boot speed is a Good Thing.
As for its potential street cred, I don't think the combination of bare computer hardware, Linux and a Tolkien-derived name will see you having to beat off the hotties with a shitty stick ;-)
I dunno...I think if I'd just eaten in the Burger King opposite, tubgirl would be more likely to make me lose my beanburger ;-)
I wish Americans would stop holding the BBC up as an example of great broadcasting! It's not what it used to be, and despite the occasional gem, there are as many crappy soaps and game shows as on the commercial channels. That's why Sky TV is still piling on subscribers despite high subscription charges...and Sky's success is built on American imports like The Simpsons, X-Files and Buffy!
looking at Windows source code help with a Chinese version of Linux?
And we're really fUX0red when natural gas runs out (probably within 20 years in the UK). Virtually all new power generation for the last 15 years has been gas, because the accountants like the short payback period and it helps meet the Kyoto targets because it produces less CO2 per kWh. Of course, if you want to introduce a bit of politics, Thatcher's obsession with crushing the British coal miners also had a lot to do with it.
Still, what's the good of a home generator, Mr Anderson, if you're unable to find an ISP that works?
I was wondering, as the article says "Normally Linux takes a leisurely 5 seconds or more to complete the boot process" and my PC takes a postively indolent 90 seconds!
It was a BLUE police call box. Philistine!
QuickTime has that annoying "Why Go Pro?" dialog and can hijack some of your file associations if you don't read the setup questions, but that's about all.
Odd TRS story: the bicycle manufacturer GT made a mountain bike called an RTS-1 (Rear Tuned Suspension). It shouls have been the more logical TRS-1 (Tuned Rear Suspension), but the Tandy trademark apparently stopped them using the initials TRS. This was about 10 years after the TRS had gone out of production!
More like cocaine-starved music industry exec.
Boring...they had all that in Harry Potter two years ago, and oil paintings that talk ;-)
I liked the music! However, the only feature on the site (at the time - haven't been back) was a very sophisticated chatroom where you could wander round the "Sugababes' house" and have conversations in different rooms. When the first messages on the screen were "Wanna smoke a bowl?" and "I'm looking to meet a nice young girl" I got the feeling it wasn't being used by the intended audience.
I do use one IRC channel, but it's a special one on QuakeNet for a few mates who used to play Quake 2 together - never any trouble in there.
Any "free" rat or mouse in my garden has a life expectancy of about 30 seconds, once the resident feline AWACS detects its presence.
It was the xenobaths wot did it.
We had one girl in the office who used them a lot. Mind you, she also disinfected her entire desk every morning using Dettox spray. Since she left, a bearded vegetarian has taken over that desk, and takes his shoes off before starting work. As they say in Yorkshire, "there's nowt so queer as folk".
"I never fuss about dirt in its pure state, and when I know what sort it is... I wouldn't think of giving such trouble to neighbours in washing up when there's so much work to be done in the world already."
"A right sensible man." said Jacob. "True, true; it can't be gainsaid!" observed a brisk young man -- Mark Clark by name..."And here's a mouthful of bread and bacon that mis'ess have sent, shepherd. The cider will go down better with a bit of victuals. Don't ye chaw quite close, shepherd, for I let the bacon fall in the road outside as I was bringing it along, and may be 'tis rather gritty. There, 'tis clane dirt; and we all know what that is, as you say, and you bain't a particular man we see, shepherd." "True, true -- not at all." said the friendly Oak. "Don't let your teeth quite meet, and you won't feel the sandiness at all. Ah! 'tis wonderful what can be done by contrivance!"
Then let's hope America isn't like an Abit motherboard, cos if it is we're all fuX0red.
That happened to Lister in Red Dwarf...he ended up having all the money in the world due to compound interest over 3 million years, but IIRC he owed all of it to this electricity supplier because he left a light switched on.
Boy, I'd like to see someone hit MS with that one. It would be the biggest chunder in history ;-)
1GB "marketing" size != 1GB true size != 1GB when formatted. I remember buying a 9.1GB HDD and being somewhat peeved when Windows showed it as 8.6GB.
All this makes more sense than GWB's hydrogen economy, which needs electricity to make the hydrogen. As electricity generation is about 30% efficient, there's not much point in using biomass to produce hydrogen for fuel cells - you might as well stick biodiesel straight in the car.